Canadian Politics Today

How so?

Have you not noticed that virtually every business in the country has shut down except for the ones that the government deems “essential”?   

Virtually all necessities are still available and supply chains have been surprisingly resilient.  Grocery stores, gas stations, restaurants, news media etc are still functioning.

Because gov’t deems them essential. 

Government provides a safety net when things hit the sh!tter.

So you’re a socialist who pretends to be a free market capitalist when it suits you.

I'm thankful they can help the people who need it now, and have helped stabilize markets a bit.

Yeah...  no sh!t... the social safety net.

In what way specifically?

Government needs to nationalize industries like all healthcare, research into pharmaceuticals, and energy.    Alberta’s private electric companies are a failure compared to BC’s crown corp for hydro-electric.   

Commercial land ownership should fall to the provinces, so in the event of another disaster they can forgive rents. 

Universities and private industry needs to be forced to research bio-tech to alleviate pandemics.   

The manufacture of personal safety devices needs to be nationalized so the Americans can’t hold us hostage.  Drug patents need to be curtailed. 

The pandemic response was a guaranteed income for everyone.  There needs to be a national Guaranteed Monthly Income all the time so that when a disaster occurs it can simply be scaled up instead of having to re-invent ways to pay people, which we did anyway.